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Dec
Dec
A Moonlit New Year
The end of the year is the traditional season to take stock
of your life: what better way than to do so by moonlight,
connected to a much older cycle of time than the one we
usually live by. I did this in...
17
Dec
Dec
The Power of Moonlight
For those of us who live in an urban setting, moonlight,
starlight and darkness itself are increasingly rare
commodities. What do we lose by living in a man-built
environment of perpetual day? This excerpt reveals the
powerful psychological effect the night sky can have...
04
Sep
Sep
A Well Connected Life
The journalist and writer Richard Louv has coined and
popularized an extremely catchy way of diagnosing something
that is going wrong with our technology-rich, time-poor and
ever more urban lives. Starting with ‘Last Child in the
Woods’ in 2005, and followed by ‘The Nature...
04
Jul
Jul
Mark Earls takes a trip to the zoo
Going to the zoo, zoo, zoo…
For much of my life, a trip to the Zoo has been a pleasant
diversion, a reassuringly familiar tramp, around the caged
curiosities with ice creams, small children and that
lingering perfume of the banana at the bottom...
12
Jun
Jun
Neil Ansell on Escaping to the Woods
At the age of thirty, I was offered the tenancy of a cottage
high in the hills of mid-Wales for just a peppercorn rent; a
cottage with no electricity, gas or running water. I had no
plan when I went there. I was...
21
May
May
Jinny Blom on What Makes A Therapeutic Landscape
When we stop to consider the towns and cities that we have
built around us, it is astonishing how abominable most
public landscaping is and how detrimental to the human
spirit. How is it that we have we come to a collective
agreement to accept it? Why do...
05
Mar
Mar
Leo Critchley on Escaping to the Urban Wilderness
‘No thought, no action, no movement, total stillness: only
thus can one manifest the true nature and law of things from
within and unconsciously, and at last become one with heaven
and earth.’
- Lau Tzu
In contemporary Britain, most of us live in cities...
21
Nov
Nov
Melanie Challenger on Reaching Out to the Natural World
When we glance across the road at the faces of strangers in
our vicinity, it is mirrored by looking out over a field or
a stand of trees and having no knowledge of the other
species living in our midst. Altruism in humans...
04
Nov
Nov
Richard Reynolds on Compassion for the Cracks
Trampled across, shat upon, dumped on. We let the wasteful
abuse of these poor downtrodden sods carry on day after day.
Most people are blind to it until they end up tripping up
and only then realize what peculiar and ubiquitous little
things they...
23
Sep
Sep
Lawrence Krauss on Cosmic Connections
'Every atom in your body came from a star that exploded.
And, the atoms in your left hand probably came from a
different star than your right hand.
It really is the most poetic thing I know about physics: You
are all stardust.
You...
23
Jun
Jun
Cathy Haynes on the Desire for Uncertainty
It has always seemed obvious to me that the state of being
human implies a craving for certainty and a discomfort with
doubt. But here is a tale of one of history's greatest
certainty-seekers that makes me wonder if that's wholly
true.
One of the...
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